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CLASSIC WORK ON LAPLAND. SCHEFFERUS (SCHEFFER), JOHANNES. Lapponia id est, regiones lapponum et gentis nova et verissima descriptio. In qua multa de origine, superstitione, sacris magis, victu, cultu, negotiis lapponum, item animalium, metallorumque indole, quæ in terris eorum proveniunt, hactenus incognita. Produntur, & eiconibus adjectis cum cura illustrantur. Francofurti (ex officina Christiani Wolffii, typis Joannis Anreæ) 1673.

Small 4:o (about 202x160 mm). (14), (1)-378, (2) pp. Lacking 1 errata leaf at the end. Engraved extra title, title in red and black with woodcut figurative vignette, 1 folding engraved map, 25 woodcut illustrations in the text, of which 6 full page (all, engraved title partly loose and trimmed to outer margin).
Contemporary vellum, covers partly warped, title on spine, at foot of spine label from private library, speckled edges. Some minor foxing and spotting. Signature of Bengt Löw and some of his marginal notes.

Collijn sp. 828. Fant 35. Warmholtz 705. Marklund 2605. Graesse VI, 297.
First edition. The engraved extra title with the year 1674.
Early and important work on the Laplanders, their history and culture. An English edition was published in 1674, a German in 1675, an enlarged French in 1678 and a Dutch in 1682.
This was the first authoritative account of the Lapps since Olaus Magnus. The description is based on reports prepared by clergymen in the North of Sweden at the request of the chancellor Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie (1622-1680), a great patron of learning, to whom the volume is dedicated. The author Schefferus (or Scheffer) was a professor at Uppsala University, where he had been invited in 1647 from Strassbourg. (Sten G. Lindberg, Swedish Books 1280-1967, p. 23.).
The notes of Bengt Löw are after the original corrections of the author (the copy can be find in the Royal Library, Stockholm).

Provenance: Bengt Löw, who wrote the the preface for the Swedish edition 1956, edited by Ernst Manker.

Auktionsnummer:

6181

Datum:

2016-06-21